DUBLIN – A 15-year-old Dublin girl who went missing this weekend was found safe in Fremont on Monday night, her family says.

Sascha Schmidt’s whereabouts had been unknown since she was last seen at the Hacienda Crossing shopping center on Friday night, prompting her family to contact police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Schmidt was at a friend’s house in Fremont on Monday night when the friend’s parents saw the newscast about Schmidt’s disappearance and called the local police department, her stepfather says.

"The easy part is buying the body cameras and issuing them to the officers. They are not that expensive," said Jim Pasco, executive director at the National Fraternal Order of Police. "But storing all the data that they collect - that cost is extraordinary. The smaller the department, the tougher it tends to be for them."